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by jws 10y ago
More importantly, I hope they remember not to turn it on when they are in the room.
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by jws 10y ago
Having used and maintained a Swift translation of the StackOverflow .NET markdown processor, please, when there is a proposal to use source as a spec, burn it with fire. Scatter the ashes.
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by jws 10y ago
It is not, and not just because of a few idiosyncrasies like C which require context. Fundamentally, markdown was specified as some pattern matching and English description. The original specification was not done thinking of productions an
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by jws 10y ago
The research involved conducting interviews and gathering information on the 87 U.S. startup companies valued at over $1 billion (as of January 1, 2016) that have yet to become publicly traded on the U.S. stock market and are tracked by Th
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by jws 10y ago
A link to the study for those without WSJ subscriptions: http://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Immigrants-and-Bi... [PDF]
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by jws 10y ago
I've driven through quite a bit of the United States. Attitudes to roadside littering vary wildly. Some eastern Washington state highways and rural Kentucky highways have mind bogglingly improbable amounts of litter for the number of p
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by jws 10y ago
Modern asphalt road maintenance can include thin overlays to extend the life of the roads instead of replacement or thick overlays, as low as 1/2" compared to the traditional 2". This overlay is made of some new material but
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by jws 10y ago
Given that many people vomit on their first zero g trip, I'm not sure how a ballistic suborbital flight works with a large passenger compartment.
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by jws 10y ago
The recently rebuilt (2010) Taum Sauk reservoir only manages a 70% efficiency according to Wikipedia. I'm not seeing a number published for the Powerpack but I'd guess a 90% ballpark.
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by jws 10y ago
why is this a matter for the DHS? The DHS was created by aggregating 22 existing agencies. Those agencies are still responsible for their traditional functions. The US Customs and Border Inspections is one such agency, it enforces laws ag
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by jws 10y ago
Back in the mid '90s Digital's RDB (an early SQL database) had a companion product, Rdb Expert, which would analyze a live database over a period of time and make a script to set up its indices (ordered and hashed) and table place
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by jws 10y ago
I think you can dispense with the "jump". Just press the "gravity off" switch at midnight. You will be on the far side of the earth from the sun, as the earth is pulled to the sun in its orbit, you will drift away on a t
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by jws 10y ago
I think the boxes should require corporate branding logos to be stenciled on them. Say 10% of the size of the box and prominently located. People should understand each time they see one of those blight boxes that it is AT&T's box.
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by jws 10y ago
For the curious or confused by the "when you tap the button it shoots an electrical signal that the phone will pick up and interpret" in the article, the control buttons are implemented as resistors switched across the mic/
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by jws 10y ago
Don’t tax labor to give money out to UBI loafers. Instead, snag society’s capital income, which is already paid out to people without regard to whether they work, and pay it out to everyone. Also known as nationalizing all investments. I
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by jws 10y ago
What if Safari attracted a heavy WebGL ad in their web browsing test? What if Chrome had an ad blocker in place? What if they used an automation system to drive the test which wired on the discrete gpu? I see a lot of questions an engineer
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by jws 10y ago
As I see it, as the difference between high power and low power states increases, the accuracy of a "time left" predictor decreases. Back in the day, "active" was one power draw, with a somewhat lower one for idle. And p
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by jws 10y ago
The headline doesn't really match the conclusion. While the interrogations added and corrected information, in the run up to the Iraq war of 2003 the CIA analysis was dismissed and a tiny subset cherry picked to create a pretense for
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by jws 10y ago
Western women are comfortable clipping far more expensive diamonds, pearls, and gold to their ears. Sometimes they fall off and you look for them. Sometimes you lose one. This is sad. Life goes on. (Apple has already said there will be a wa
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by jws 10y ago
I wonder if I just ruined a bit of movie watching. Like back in the days of film, once I saw the reel change dot in the upper right I could never unsee them. No matter what was happening on screen the little man in the brain would pop out a
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by jws 10y ago
I wonder who asked for this? While 640k might not be enough for everyone, 256 terabytes of directly addressable memory seems, suffient to requirements.
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by jws 10y ago
Yes, it's annoying. But honestly, if a person won't share contact information in exchange for the fruits of thousands of hours of someone's labor then they don't have much of a need for it and the creators probably aren&
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by jws 10y ago
Not to nitpick your dilemma, there will always be a dilemma, but at any speed where children in the road are likely (<70km/h, 45mph), the driver of a modern car will have a 90% chance of survival against the wall. Cars really are mu
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by jws 10y ago
Diamons will burn at 690°C in pure oxygen. Houses burn at around 590°C. Maybe if you rupture an O₂ tank in a house fire right next to the diamond battery you could pull it off. I wouldn't worry about small diamond batteries. There is a
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by jws 10y ago
base 85 also has the interesting property that 4 original bytes fit in 5 encoded bytes. Depending on your processor's memory model and the cost of multiplies compared to shifts this can make it the best performer. This was true on Vax
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by jws 10y ago
Time will tell, but I wonder if reliability will be the issue. USB-C has 24 contacts crammed in there. That's a lot of tiny parts for something that gets manhandled and lint packed as much as a phone charger connection. If I was on the
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by jws 10y ago
This is more about which salaried employees are exempt, that is they don't get overtime. The theory is if you are pulling an oar then, you get overtime if you are hourly or yearly paid. If you are in charge of the ship then you don&#x
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by jws 10y ago
Tyvek is loud . I used it to sew furniture covers for a cabin that is left unoccupied in winter. Shaking out the bed covers to put them on is deafening. Walking with a Tyvek pack might drive you mad.
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by jws 10y ago
The font is ostensibly for the experimental UI, so that the font license would not encumber the code using the UI toolkit. That said, they did seem to put effort into making sure Go source code would look pretty.
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by jws 10y ago
My Acer Cloudbook trackpad is I2C, a similar simple bus. It can be configured in BIOS to fallback to PS/2 with reduced capabilities. PS/2 is too slow for the volume of data coming out of a modern touchpad. USB is a lot more hardwa

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